Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-26
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-.

The House has passed the Dill creating
DEPARTMENT. OF Agriculturea and Labor. The
Secretary of the department, under the pro-
visions of the law, will be a Cabinet officer,
and division of his department will be
under the control of Commissioner of
Labor. who will have to deal with the ma
terial, social, intellectual and moral inter-
ests of the laboring population of the coun-
try. The interests affected have heretofore
been under the charge of the Secretary Of
the Interior.
On the 18th instant, the House passed the
Mexican pension bill, as it came from the
Senate, by an overwhelming majority.
There seems to be no doubt that the Pres
ident will approve the bill. 1t provides
that pension of 50 month shall be paid
to all surviving officers and enlisted men,
including marines, militia and volunteers
of the military and naval services of the
United States, who being duly enlisted, ac-
tually served sixty days with the army or
navy of the United States in Mexico or on
the coasts or frontier thereof or en- route
thereto in the war with that nation, or WHO
were actually engaged in battle in said
war and were honorably discharged, aDd
to such other officers and soldiers and sail
ors as may have been personally named in
any resolution of Congress for any specif-
ic service in said war, and the surviv-
ing widows of such officers and enlisted
men: Provided, that such widows have
not remarked: Provided, that every such
officer, enlisted man or widow, who is or
may become G. years of age, or who is or
may become subject to any disability or
dependency equivalent to some cause pre-
scribed or recognized by the pension laws of
the United States as sufficient reason for the
allowance of pension, shall be entitled to
the benefits of this Act but it shall not be
held to include any person not within the
rule of age or disability or dependency
herein defined, or who incurred such disa-
bility while in any manner voluntarily en-
gagged in or aiding or abetting the late
rebellion against the authority of the Unit
ed States. Section 4,715 of the Revised
Statutes is repealed, so far as it relates to
this Act or to pensioners under this Act.
The House has passed new anti Mormon
bill, more stringent in its features than the
Edmunds law, now in force.
The Senate passed the Interstate Com
merce bill by a vote of 43 to15, and on Friday
the bill, as agreed to by the conference COM
mittee was passed by the House by vote
of 219 to Al. 1t was enrolled, signed by the
presiding officers Of both houses and sent to
the President for his signature. The bill
is lengthy, and has for its object the en-
forcement of uniform system of charges
and tariffs by the railroad lines of the
United States.
In the House on Saturday, Representa-
tive Hammond submitted to the Judiciary
Committee the report on Mr.. Dibble's reso-
luton, authorizing the acceptance by the
House of the oath of Office made by Rep
resentative Aiken at his home in South
Carolina. After reciting the fact that Mr..
Aiken was duly elected and returned as a
member of the House, but by severe illness
has been unable to appear and take the
oath, and must so remain unable during
the remainder of this Congress, the report
discusses the legal aspect of the case, and
concludes that the house can and under
the circumstances, should accept the oath of
Office sent in by Mr.. Aiken.